Re: [Radiant] Two new extensions - WYSIWYG editor and Maruku filter

2007-03-01 Thread Nicholas Lee
On 2/26/07, Nathan Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm hoping that someone makes an asset manager that's so well thought out and executed that John looks at it and says Damn, we've got to have that! The have an interesting look asset management system at http://www.silverstripe.com/home/.

Re: [Radiant] Two new extensions - WYSIWYG editor and Maruku filter

2007-03-01 Thread Daniel Sheppard
Just had a little bit of a poke around in their demo site. What ideas are you thinking we should borrow? On 2/26/07, Nathan Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm hoping that someone makes an asset manager that's so well thought out and executed that John looks at it and says Damn, we've got to

Re: [Radiant] Two new extensions - WYSIWYG editor and Maruku filter

2007-03-01 Thread Nicholas Lee
On 3/2/07, Daniel Sheppard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just had a little bit of a poke around in their demo site. What ideas are you thinking we should borrow? I liked the method used for maintaining an image in page. Option to select another from the asset location or via an upload. Which I

Re: [Radiant] Two new extensions - WYSIWYG editor and Maruku filter

2007-03-01 Thread Chris Parrish
I just finished building a site that used a lot of PDF files scattered across pages. At over 50 pages, in some cases a single PDF fit well on more than one page. Now that I'm done, it looks like I am going to build another page listing all the PDF documents - an asset tree, if you will. This

Re: [Radiant] Two new extensions - WYSIWYG editor and Maruku filter

2007-02-26 Thread Chris Parrish
Nathan Wright wrote: While I agree that they are an asset in a sense, they are also an asset with a behavior, and that certainly complicates things quite a bit. Depending on the technical skill (or lack thereof) of a user they could even bring down your site (image a bad javascript file that

Re: [Radiant] Two new extensions - WYSIWYG editor and Maruku filter

2007-02-24 Thread Chris Parrish
Nathan Wright wrote: I think that John believes that assets should belong to a page rather than being more universal in nature, but I honestly think that this may complicate things too much for the average user. In my system all assets are available to all pages. You add those assets (be

Re: [Radiant] Two new extensions - WYSIWYG editor and Maruku filter

2007-02-24 Thread David Minor
On Feb 24, 2007, at 9:19 AM, Chris Parrish wrote: Sounds like you're heading in the right direction (IMHO, anyway). Feel free to contact me directly. Others are welcome too -- I'd like to consider all possibilities. I think that this is a much needed aspect to radiant (though maybe not

Re: [Radiant] Two new extensions - WYSIWYG editor and Maruku filter

2007-02-24 Thread Nathan Wright
Nothing ready for public consumption just yet ... though I am hoping to have it ready soon (next week or so, if my free time holds up). On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 03:12:05 -0700, Keith Bingman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote one of the first extensions for this, but kind of dropped it as I was

[Radiant] Two new extensions - WYSIWYG editor and Maruku filter

2007-02-23 Thread Nathan Wright
I was a little late to the game when it came to checking out the Mental branch, but *wow* I really like what I see. The extensions are very slick, and I can already see myself spending long hours making new ones. In fact, I've got a few to offer right now. The first is a simple text filter

Re: [Radiant] Two new extensions - WYSIWYG editor and Maruku filter

2007-02-23 Thread Chris Parrish
Sounds good. I'm looking forward to playing with this. I can see it being very useful (though I share John's distaste for using WYSIWYG editors) for my customers. Are you willing to provide any details on the asset management piece you are working on? I've read about what the others are

Re: [Radiant] Two new extensions - WYSIWYG editor and Maruku filter

2007-02-23 Thread Nathan Wright
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:55:04 -0700, Chris Parrish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds good. I'm looking forward to playing with this. I can see it being very useful (though I share John's distaste for using WYSIWYG editors) for my customers. Ditto. How have you persuaded them to use something